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Raymond Depardon: Extreme Hotel

Raymond Depardon, Brésil. Amazonie. Roraima. Indien Yanomami, 2008.

Esplanade Charles-de-Gaulle, 34000 Montpellier, France

Since the early 1960s, the French movie director and photojournalist Raymond Depardon has presented us with reality distilled. When he was a young man, Depardon traveled to Algeria, Biafra, Vietnam, and Chad, where he captured jarring scenes of conflict and war. In the 1970s, Depardon famously covered the kidnapping of Françoise Claustre, the French ethnologist, in Chad: he took black-and-white photographs that show her seated on the floor of a hut, her captor nearby with a rifle. Now 83, Depardon has 25 documentary films to his name, works that shed light on many subjects, including farm life and psychiatry. This exhibition brings together 150 color photographs spanning his entire career. —Elena Clavarino

Photo: © Raymond Depardon / Magnum Photos